Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “α”

BOURGEOIS SCIENTISTS ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM

N.B.  Bourgeois scientists on the struggle againstimperialism;

“Nationalities and subject races.”

Report of the conference held in the Caxton Hall, Westminster, June 28-30, 1910. London, 1911 (xii + 178 pp.).

Review inWeltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. II, p. 193, signedH. J. Nieboer(Hague). The author of the review notes that the report contains brief speeches by representatives “of various peoples living under foreign rule: Egyptians, Indians, Moroccans, Georgians, Negro races of Africa, South American Indians, and also European nations such as the Irish and Poles” (p. 194).

It is significant that the bourgeois “imperialists” inWeltwirtschaftliches Archivkeep track of the national liberation movements in the colonies (at least the non-German ones).[2]

For instance, Vol. III, 2

the ferment and protests in India (p. 230)

idem in Natal (Africa) owing to restrictions on the immigration of Indians (230-31).

Vol. IV, 1, p. 130—the movement for self-government in theDutch Indies.[3]

[1]See present edition, Vol. 22, p. 286.—Ed.

[2]Ibid.—Ed.

[3]Ibid.—Ed.